David Bass and the North Cambridge Family Opera CompanyAs a teenager, David was a prolific composer of pretentious music and studied music at Yale, where he quickly became discouraged. He received a BS in chemistry from Yale and a doctorate in chemical engineering from MIT, during which time he arranged dozens of songs for the close harmony acapella groups at these institutions. After a 20 year hiatus from musical composition, David wrote the distinctly unpretentious Space Opera for the enjoyment of his three young children, their friends, and their families, who performed it as part of the second North Cambridge (NoCa) All Arts Open Studios weekend in May 1999. Thus began the North Cambridge Family Opera Company (NCFOC), now incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a mission to produce original, high-quality, fully sung-through theater pieces (opera) for audiences of all ages, using a cast of children and adults drawn from the community. NCFOC holds auditions every October for performances in the spring, which draw audiences totaling 2000-3000. In addition to Space Opera, NCFOC has produced David's second opera, The Coronation of Esther and its sequel Springtime for Haman, as well as the American premieres of The Puzzle Jigs by David Haines and Antiphony by composer Graham Preskett and librettist John Kane. "The 2007 NCFOC season includes a March 24 - April 1 production of David's fourth opera, Kids Court, which he wrote in collaboration with John Kane, and Lifetime: Songs of Life and Evolution by David Haines, which will be performed on Sunday April 29 at 4 PM as part of NoCa weekend." Please visit http://www.FamilyOpera.org for more information about NOFOC. More of David Bass and the North Cambridge Family Opera Company  David Bass and the North Cambridge Family Opera Company |
